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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...considering the organization of a system for establishing and maintaining world peace, we must refrain from over idealization; although we look to an ideal to which our proposed system aims to attain, our principal attention must be focused on the factors to be considered at the birth and during the infancy of our system...
...break away from those places which his ancestors cleared from the wilderness, then there is no doubt but that, given a due amount of Saxon intelligence and grit, he may make good in foreign countries. But unless he has that restlessness of the blood he would do well to look at the opportunities that lie before him in his own country, where his own tongue is spoken, among people, who are in sympathy with his ideas, and whose ideas he may appreciate...
...last ten minutes, when Abbott, in full goal regalia, starred in the forward line. The scrimmage ended when Abbott and Wendell collided, and the latter found himself minus a front tooth. Both teams set a fast pace at the start of the scrimmage, although the University seven did not look quite as good as they did against the substitutes the day before. Percy was given a day off, Condon taking his place and scoring the team's third goal...
...When an Agassiz or a Shaler dies or retires, a weakening of the reputation of the institution in his branch is taken as a matter of course. But when a department contains a small galaxy of stars whose instruction continues over extended periods, it is equally natural to look for the rearing of brilliant disciples to take their places. Of creditable workers in the fields of philosophy and psychology the United States has a number, but the attainments of none quite suggest him as a successor of James or Royce. --New York Evening Post
...mean that Mr. Sanborn has forgotten to be a poet entirely; the lines I have quoted prove at least his good intentions, and I shall try presently to show that he has accomplished something besides the creation of crazy images. But we should have to look in vain among the ultra-brilliant conceits of Miss Lowell or the adjectival debauches of Mr. John Gould Fletcher for anything as incomprehensible as these lines from "Elevation...